@Smudge_Proof
 
@toonbat  
I’ll prepare the wedding cake and find a nice venue.

@toonbat  
This is moving so fast! Like Stevonnie fast!  
_{Oh, I have a diddledong if you need to know.}

@Smudge_Proof  
Rookie mistake. Our love is beyond platonic! It’s… Steven Universe fusion levels!
 
I meant about calling you ‘man’ on my original comment, BTW.

@toonbat  
Oh… I thought we were platonic!

@Smudge_Proof  
Also, I dunno if you’re a man or not, so sorry for assuming, in case I was wrong.

@toonbat  
The important thing is that you love me.  
And I have it in written form…

@Smudge_Proof  
Smudge dude, I love you man, and I’m pretty sure I understand what you’re trying to say. Still, I think it’s time to…
 
 
ABANDON THREAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!
 
Thanks for giving me an excuse to use this gif, BTW.

@cheezedoodle  
I didn’t see offense. I have no real reason to think they meant anything negative when they wrote it.  
I was simply saying that I found it kind of amusing that something like this would slip by.

@Smudge_Proof
 
Oh of course, all that much is obvious. I just think those people are part of what’s wrong with the world today–seeing offense where there is none intended.

@cheezedoodle  
She is very strongly based off on traditional sub-Saharan African culture and people. People often see her as a stand-in for black people because of that, so saying “zebra face” will make a number of those people think of the unfortunate tradition of “blackface”. That is all, AFAICR.

@Smudge_Proof  
I have no idea what you’re saying at this point, and will just reiterate that I can’t see any way in which her dialogue is controversial or “unfortunate.”

@cheezedoodle  

@Smudge_Proof  
So a “black” person can’t talk about their face without it being an unfortunate reference to blackface?

#zebralivesmatter

@cheezedoodle  
I know. I was just remarking on the unfortunate connotation that a number of people, including myself, caught here to ‘blackface’, and which seems to have gone unnoticed by people at IDW.

That’s it. I’m shipping them.

@untraceablelarry  
@Smudge_Proof
 
There’s a lot of definitions for “face” and I don’t think this is using the literal definition (her actual face).
 
“Face” can also used as just another word for a type of person, i.e. “I see there’s a lot of new faces around here” just means “new people” not literally “new faces.”

@untraceablelarry  
Reminded me of The Cleveland Show’s “happy mustache face”, which would have been black guy face till they realized the problem with that. I even did the “he he he he” to myself when I read it.
 
@Evowizard25  
I knew that, which is why labeling her sociopathic would be an exaggeration.

@Smudge_Proof  
I mean in the comic, of course. Damn lack of comment editability!  
_{I am guilty myself. How sad.}

@Starswirl  
Damn, you beat me to it. Really bad wording.

I think that is the dumbest sounding rhyme I’ve ever heard out of Zecora. “I’m the only Zebra face”, really? Is there a further context to which that sounds less stupid?

@Stotter  
It should be noted that there was a scene planned to give Lightning a more sympathetic send-off, but it was cut for time.

It wasn’t so much what Lightning Dust did so much as her attitude about it. If she’d been apologetic, she’d be sympathetic. If she just didn’t know what went wrong, well, we love a pegasus like that. But her attitude can be summed up as “Risk? I don’t care about that. I’m too focused on being the best to concern myself with anypony else’s well-being.”

@Pagan  
Thanks.
 
@Itsthinking  
Well maybe she wouldn’t have been like that if Spitfire wasn’t goading her into continuing that line of thinking, instead of correcting it. {Yeah, Spitfire was the real jerk of that episode.}

@Pagan  
I love Mina as well, if only there was an acception to canons so we could see her in the show!